Thousands of elderly UK citizens have been wrongly charged care home fees
Did you know that thousands of elderly citizens in care homes in
the UK are paying nursing fees when they shouldn't be?
Local authorities all over the UK have wrongly assessed
thousands of people and placed them in expensive care homes when in
actual fact they were eligible for free care under the NHS.
Last year it was estimated that 45,000 care home residents in
the UK had to sell their own houses to fund their care. Sadly, a
large proportion of this number should not have been paying for
their care in the first place.
Sufferers of dementia, Alzheimer's disease or any other severe
physical or mental disability should have been assessed on their
medical conditions, and been awarded free continuing care under the
NHS.
However, many local health authorities in the UK carried out
nursing assessments incorrectly and thousands of people were made
to pay for care in a nursing home at their own expense.
Under UK law, those with serious health needs should receive
full or part funding for continuing care under the NHS and not have
to pay for care homes out of their own pockets.
Many people have already taken their local health authority to
task over these erroneous assessments and have received £1000s of
care home fees in compensation.
So if you think you have been incorrectly assessed and should be
entitled to free continuing care then click here to go to our Care
Homes Fees Reclaim service to arrange a free, no
obligation consultation with our care home fees expert.
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